Texas Ry Co v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 1 district · 83 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But such suit shall bo subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pitkin v. Cowen · Central Trust Co. v. East Tennessee, V. & G. Ry. Co.

2. ““The Texas and Pacific Railway Company is a corporation deriving its corporate powers from acts of congress, and was held in Pacific Railroad Removal Cases, 115 U. S. 1 , 5 Sup. Ct. 1113 , to be entitled, under the act of March 3, 1875, to have suits brought against it in the state courts removed to the circuit courts of the United States on the ground that they were suits arising under the,laws of the United States. The reasoning was that this must he so, since the company derived its powers, functions, and duties from those acts, and suits against it necessarily involved the exercise of those powers, functions, and duties as an original ingredient.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Caples v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

3. ““As the receivers became such by reasen of, and derived their authority from, and operated the road in obedience to, the orders of the circuit court in the exercise of its judicial powers, we hold that jurisdiction existed, because the suit was one arising under the constitution and laws of the United Slates.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pitkin v. Cowen